Word: idiom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
West of the tracks, near the sprawling stockyards, is where Clem Lane was born 46 years ago, and much of Oxie's slangy. slipshod idiom springs from Lane's playmates and his long acquaintance with Chicago's Irish cops...
Lots of Englishmen take to the U.S. like ducks to water, but few learn to quack the idiom as fast or as well as Geoffrey Bridson has. Redhaired, red-mustached, bouncy little Bridson (pronounced Brideson), 33, has for the past four months been interpreting the U.S. to Britons via BBC. He has done so with uncommon perception and success. Onetime insurance salesman, poet, at present Geoffrey Bridson is BBC's best known writer-producer-director...
...Alaska Highway ("a highway that would stretch from Paris to Moscow") was covered by Bridson in a first-rate script that caught the U.S. idiom ("Boy, I never knew anything could be so cold. It must be about a thousand below"), the feel of the country ("Spring . . . the air's full of the sound of running water, the gurgle of streams and the chatter of rivers below the ice"), and the temper of the men who built it ("Eight miles a day-and only a thousand miles...
...hint of Spain, no highfalutin of opera, clings to these people. Oscar Hammerstein's lively book uses straight Negro idiom, finds room-and here Carmen Jones strikes out boldly for itself-for a pulsating Negro gaiety. Not into Lillas Pastia's dim tavern, but into a packed and glittering night spot, does Husky Miller make his first royal entrance. Instead of hiding out in a smugglers' den, the Carmen Jones crowd cavort and click their heels at a swanky Negro country club...
...hill people, more shocking because it deals with the death of a soldier, painful and raucous in many of its details of low life among the people for whom he died, but enlivened all the way through by Jesse Stuart's magnificent use of his native idiom and his love for the country where it flourishes...